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Elm Town

Elm Town

By: Jared M. Smith
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A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.© This year, Elm Town Podcast
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  • Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026

    Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026
    Mar 24 2026

    Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend an open invitation to Elm-curious folks in the broader community. Tickets on sale as of publishing!

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.
    Edited by Toni Cañete.

    Recording date: 2026.01.28

    Guests
    • Katja Mordaunt
    • Tomáš Látal
    Show notes [00:00:33] Sponsored by Logistically [00:00:54] Introducing Katja Mordaunt & Tomáš Látal
    • Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt
    • Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster
    • Scrive
    [00:06:22] Elm Camp Info
    • elm.camp
    [00:07:33] The town of Olomouc
    • Elm Camp Discord
    [00:13:28] The venue: Park Hotel Prachárna
    • Hotel Prachárna
    [00:19:50] Unconference format
    • Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025
    [00:27:16] Intentionally Elm-curious
    • Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
    • Lambda Days
    [00:34:16] The beauty of Elm Camp [00:39:41] Picks Katja's pick
    • "Teaching Haskell to Kids"
    Tomáš' picks
    • Coderetreat
    • Darknet Diaries
    • Kagi Small Web
    • "The Small Web is Beautiful" by Ben Hoyt
    • Jujutsu
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans

    Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans
    Dec 16 2025
    Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2025.04.08GuestFelienne HermansShow notes[00:00:26] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:48] Introducing Felienne HermansHedy - Textual programming made easyThe Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans"How to teach programming (and other things)?" at Strange Loop 2019"A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design", co-authored with Ari SchlesingerElm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja MordauntCode Reading ClubThe Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman[00:04:09] The costs of misconceptionsScience Mike[00:09:51] Journey to computer science[00:14:33] Programming culture: challenges and creativityElm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents with Martin StewartElm Town 64 – The network effect with Martin StewartAdvent of Code[00:21:36] Bias and building a multi-lingual programming languageMark Guzdial's blog: Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take[00:28:35] Hedy's gradual syntaxAddressing Computing’s Discrimination Problem: A Framework for Anti-Discriminatory Computing by Ari SchlesingerThe Will to Change by bell hooks[00:38:12] Programming language community, learning, and valuing hard things[00:47:19] How language design choices affect cognitive load"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2019Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software with Tessa KellyEpisode 68: Elm and ADD with Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels[00:56:22] History of women in computing"Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing" by Myra ChengNathan Ensmenger[01:03:40] Kotodama (言霊): What's in a name?Feeling of Computing 75 • A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans[01:08:49] Switching to a dumb phone[01:16:48] AI"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonIn Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe[01:30:10] PicksFelienne's picks"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara KneeseCrisis of Narration by Byung-Chul HanJared's pickThe End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

    Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard
    Sep 23 2025

    Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.

    Recording date: 2025.02.24

    Guest
    • Sophie Collard
    Show notes[00:00:29] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:50] Introducing Sophie
    • London Air UI using Elm & Leafletjs
    • "Lessons learnt from writing 10k LOC in Elm" at Lambda Days 2024
    • sophiecollard/jsonpath
    [00:01:33] Journey to programming[00:10:35] Learning Elm[00:14:30] Questions from Monica McGuigan on learning[00:17:41] Mob programming
    • Mobster by Dillon Kearns
    • Zed channels for collaboration
    [00:23:47] London Air UI
    • Custom elements (Elm Guide chapter)
    [00:27:48] Railpackers
    • Railpackers
    • xkcd: Standards
    [00:33:51] The Jackson guitar project (Chushin Gakki)
    • Chushin Gakki Jacksons Directory (GitHub)
    • elm-pages
    • Elm Town
    [00:41:41] sophiecollard/jsonpath[00:44:51] PicksSophie's picks
    • Elm in Action by Richard Feldman
    • Programming Elm by Jeremy Fairbank
    Jared's pick
    • Future of Coding (a.k.a. Feeling of Comput(er)ing)
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    49 mins
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